Federal Government disburse N200billion to Universities in line with agreement with ASUU

Government, on Monday, disbursed the N200 billion intervention funds to all the country’s public universities in line with the agreement recently reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Supervising Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, presented the letters of allocation of the N200 billion to the vice chancellors at a meeting in Abuja.


This is even as the Federal Government accused some state governors of playing politics with education and jeopardising the future of the Nigerian child, expressing worry that some state governments abandoned N51 billion that could have been used for the development of basic education through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).

Wike, while presenting letters of allocation to vice chancellors, expressed the government’s commitment to improving university education and urged the beneficiaries to take advantage of the opportunity to take the institutions to the desired level.

It will be recalled that the Federal Government, in a bid to end the protracted strike by ASUU in 2013, approved the release of N200 billion and total injection of N1.3 trillion in the next six years.

The minister urged the universities to ensure that the funds were used mainly for improving infrastructure in the institutions, expressing the hope that the money would be fully utilised within the year.